Department of Economics, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, 39300, Spain.
Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, London, WC1H 0XG, UK.
Sci Data. 2024 Jun 21;11(1):650. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03426-6.
Monitoring health is key for identifying priorities in public health planning and improving healthcare services. Life expectancy has conventionally been regarded as a valuable indicator to compare the health status of different populations. However, this measure is simply the mean of the distribution of the length of life and, as such, neglects individual disparities in health outcomes. In this paper, we use life tables from the UN World Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive dataset of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and areas for the period 1950-2021. These extensive series on lifespan distributions provide access to crucial information for researchers, practitioners, and the general public, thus contributing to a better understanding of health differences within and between nations.
监测健康状况是确定公共卫生规划重点和改善医疗服务的关键。预期寿命一直被视为比较不同人群健康状况的有价值指标。然而，这一衡量标准仅仅是生命长度分布的平均值，因此忽略了健康结果方面的个体差异。在本文中，我们利用联合国《世界人口展望》中的生命表，为 1950 年至 2021 年期间的 258 个国家和地区开发了最全面的寿命不平等和两极分化数据集。这些关于寿命分布的广泛系列为研究人员、从业者和公众提供了获取关键信息的途径，有助于更好地理解国家内部和国家之间的健康差异。
Zotero 插件
